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This has been a great read.....

So... I work for a luxury car dealer in Boise and last night I had a customer stop in to look at a used Tahoe. Somehow we got around to talking about old cars and I mentioned that I still owned my 1st car... a 70 Charger with a bigblock.. and he says he used to have a Hemi Cuda'.... I asked what year ? He says '68... I think "yeah right"... not another one of these guys.... I asked if it was Black thinking I would trip him up.. He says "only the fenders and the hood...because they were fiberglass... WOW !!!
What was your name again ? .... Jerry Taylor he says... Now I'm excited !! I meet some high end people at this job but an original owner of a BO23 trumps them all....The car was "Gentle Ben" ...
I didn't move to Idaho until around 83 but I have heard about the car from mopar circles and racing at Firebird.
He said that he also ran the 1st funny car in Id . A 68 Barracuda...Apparently he ran the west coast circuit ...but most of you already know that.

He said last he knew the car was in MN. Which is interesting since that is where I grew up and just went racing with my brother at BIR
( DonneyBrook to some) last July.

I will ask him next time we talk if he has any pics from the day

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http://cdn101.iofferphoto.com/img/10.../2843519/1.jpg

And the F/C:

http://www.firebirdonline.com/blast_...FTP8_07_11.jpg

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That's great.....thanks ...
I think I read that article or a reprint of it long ago.

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Don Grotheer (In 1969 he was running in SS/BA)

Here at the 1969 Indy Nationals

http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.46366...58531&pid=15.1

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If this is the Patelle Dart, has it ever been located?http://img854.imageshack.us/img854/3775/89483704.jpg

Another post stated it went out west....but where?

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Dart Vader link.(Florida pics)
http://assets2.hubgarage.com/mygarag...vehicles/17438

Gives restoration history but not the original owner.

http://hubgarage.s3.amazonaws.com/ph...002_detail.jpg

Who's was this originally?

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About 10-11 years ago there was a Jerry Norton that had a black LO23 Dart that he won "best of show" at a employee/customer parking lot carshow in Oak Park Michigan. The magazine photo that I have shows a extreamly clean looking car with no obvious modifications except the addition of front side-marker lights and dog-dish hubcaps (did they come with them?) on steel wheels. Does anybody know if this car is accounted for? The article does not say what transmission it had.

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There was a black Dart from FLA and a black Dart from MI that I was interested in purchasing. I found out that both of those particular cars that I found were rebodys, so I quickly moved on in my search.

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Found that reference chasing the whereabouts of the Johnny Rivers Hemi Dart.

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This is the Joe Patelle Dart- no - it has not been located as of yet

Mark J
68 Hemi S/S Registry